The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 lbs.. The current challenger for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish could live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.